Your message dated Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:52:54 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line closing bugs reported against ancient GCC versions has caused the Debian Bug report #493225, regarding gcc-4.3: Should warn about format strings similar to "%-20.20s" to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gcc-4.3 Version: 4.3.1-2 Severity: wishlist Some projects like exif use statements like this for aligning the output: fprintf (stdout, "%-20.20s", C(CN(exif_tag_get_title_in_ifd (e->tag, ifd)))); printf ("|"); and this doesn't work (i.e., the output is misaligned because bytes, characters and cells are completely different things) in multibyte locales. IMHO it is a good idea to educate such ignorant upstreams with a new warning about printf format strings that specify %s and the field width (and possibly precision). -- Alexander E. Patrakov
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--- Begin Message ---This bug has been reported against an ancient version of gpc (4.1), gcc/g++/gfortran (4.3), or gcj/gij/gobjc (4.4), that was last released with Debian 6.0 (squeeze). But even squeeze-lts has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. The bug is assumed to be fixed (or no longer relevant) in newer GCC releases and therefore I'm closing this report now. If the problem is still reproducible in the currently supported versions (gcc-5, gcc-6 or corresponding g++/gcj), feel free to provide more information, reopen and reassign this bug report. Andreas
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